CFO Summit Europe
Jun 9-11 2013

Sunday June 9th, 2013 - CFO Summit Europe

Registration & Greeting to the CFO Summit Europe

Executive CFO Think Tank
*An exclusive invitation only, pre-summit think-tank for CFOs

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 10.00pm

Welcome Address

Presented by Master of Ceremonies

Welcome Gala Dinner

Monday June 10th, 2013 - CFO Summit Europe

7:00am - 8:00am

Networking Breakfast

8:10am - 8:50am

Opening CFO Keynote Presentation

Governance, Risk and Compliance Business Processes

Complying with new financial reporting standards, implementing strategies to increase growth and maintain stability while still enforcing tight controls on expenditure are crucial for today's CFOs. However, organizations spend more money on risk management and compliance than they should. In a complex and changing business environment, manually managed and fragmented risk and compliance programs can cripple organizations' agility, performance, and competitiveness.

This session will discuss how the new governance, risk and compliance environment require organizations to integrate, build, and support business process with an enterprise view that delivers value towards this goal.

9:00am - 9:30am

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Data Security & Integrity - Gaining Control & Protecting Your Information

Enterprise data and application security has become a critical issue for business decision-makers when the control over the information is at stake. What are the emerging trends and challenges in IT security? This session will focus on current trends, challenges and risks confronting your information technology infrastructure. We will address current regulatory expectations for IT safety and soundness, new IT threats, and suggest best practices to help you secure your institution.

9:35am - 10:05am

Executive Exchange

CFO Think Tank

Building the Corporate Culture

Being the foundation for corporate success, executives have long acknowledged the importance and value of corporate culture and its relation to a company's risk management. This session will discuss what exactly constitutes a healthy culture.

CFO Think Tank

Risk Clarity

Closely related with risk management, we find the concept of risk clarity. This session will discuss how to create a plan for taking your existing situation and turning it into an improved one; for identifying your risk exposures; and creating strategic solutions to reduce or eliminate those risks.

10:10am - 10:40am

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Social 2.0 and Corporate Risk Management

Social media interaction is an increasingly important aspect of brand and marketing communication. Used wisely, social media can be a useful tool that fosters good customer relationships, and monitors customer complaints. Organizations need to develop and implement strategies to incorporate the concept of social media and social commerce into their institution’s business model and client relationships.

This session will explore the next generation of social media with concern to corporate risk management. What are the reputational risks, privacy, security and regulatory concerns? What do organizations need to address as they begin the social media initiative, or enhance an existing one?

10:40am - 11:05am

Networking Break

11:10am - 11:40am

Executive Exchange

CFO Think Tank

Managing through Mergers and Acquisitions

Major challenges to making M&A activity successful - i.e., achieving business goals - is in integrating disparate systems, processes and organizations into the "new" high-performance enterprise. Preparing for and managing the integration (or carve-out) process, consolidating and merging (or separating) systems and organizations, and achieving cost and performance targets are often difficult to complete, even under the most beneficial conditions.

Join this session and become better prepared for successful execution. This session will discuss the challenges, complexities, strategies and lessons learned, from the start of due diligence, to the transaction date, and through the completion of integration and reaching financial goals.

CFO Think Tank

Talent Management and Retention

Talent management is an increasingly crucial skill and generally a great deal more complex a problem than can be solved with traditional business methods. Organizations that take a strategic, reasoned and long term approach to the issue will be able to attract and hire new talent for their critical positions.

But every organization must also be able to identify key members of their staff and retain the talent it already has. Too often do talented employees leave an organization because they see no path for growth, and receive little support for their professional development. Those that do not address talent management and retention issues and develop long term strategies will soon find themselves in a precarious position.

Developing organizational talent is too critical to leave to chance; yet, that is exactly what most organizations seem to do. This session will discuss a system for developing and retaining talent, and a process for developing tomorrow's leaders today.

11:45am - 12:15pm

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Integrated Business Services

The strategy definition and integrated business planning process requires collaboration among multiple departments and levels in an organization’s hierarchy, as well as a continuous exchange of information. This session will discuss how executives can set targets and define strategies that will facilitate the integrated business planning process.

Topics to be discussed include:

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Networking Luncheon

CFO Think Tank

Structuring Your Organizational Workforce

It falls upon the CFO and the Office of the CFO to solve a wide range or problems - from a slow decision making process, low quality decisions and lack of responsiveness to change, to friction between areas and resource inefficiency. What are we trying to achieve? Why does everyone do it differently? Why do we keep reorganizing, and is there a Right way?

This session will be an in-depth discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of different organization structure choices and organization topic choices.

CFO Think Tank

The Transforming Role of the CFO

CFOs are transforming their role to a C-Suite Partner and Business Executive who leverages resources to drive top-line revenue and sustainable business value.

To support the new business reality, today's CFO spends time on value-enhancing activities and managing strategic issues. It is all about the ability to scale, respond quickly to changes, and propel business agility. As a member of the leadership team, the CFO is expected to influence company strategy, help grow the business, and foster growth and profitability.

1:55pm - 2:25pm

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Reaching for Operational Excellence

Operational excellence is a philosophy of leadership, teamwork and problem solving, resulting in continuous improvement throughout the organization by focusing on the needs of the customer, empowering employees, and optimizing existing activities in the process. It is a business strategy in which an organization provides products and/or services that has the best price and the most convenience for their customers.

This session will discuss the concept of operational excellence and the importance of speed of execution to drive growth and create added value.

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Executive Exchange

3:05pm - 3:35pm

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Creating a Custom-Centered Organization

The growing focus on customer excellence is driven, in part, by technology as the U.S. customers today have access to more information than ever before, and the possibility to give full disclosure about the good and bad of their encounters with an organization. Apart from being a great incentive to work harder and keep our customers happy, the focus on customer experience is also a function of economic development and maturity. In stark contrast to the emerging markets, the customers in Europe spend the majority of their assets on intangible, commodity-like services that don't really enter their consciousness unless something goes wrong. If/when this happen can brief but negative interactions irreversibly damage the brand and how the organization is perceived.

This session will discuss strategies and best practices for how to create a custom-centered organization for the European customer.

CFO Executive Visions

Better Decision Making in a Diverse and Competitive Marketplace

Trying to juggle the needs and demands of internal clients and stakeholders is an ongoing challenge for CFOs, requiring not only skill and agility, but time and resources that many organizations cannot afford. The increasingly diverse and competitive customers have higher expectations for innovation, convenience, and customer service. This session will provide an overview of how to leverage a number of comprehensive and flexible management solutions to:

4:45pm - 6:30pm

Reception

6:30pm - 9:30pm

Gala Dinner

9:30pm - 10:30pm

After Dinner Networking

Day 3 - CFO Summit Europe

7:30am - 8:30am

Networking Breakfast

8:40am - 9:20am

CFO Keynote Presentation

Leveraging Enterprise Financial Management Technologies

Most organizations are not operating at a high-quality financial management. Budgeting is slow, re-forecasting is infrequent, monthly reports lack key information, and what-if analyses are incomplete or impossible. Planning, forecasting, and reporting are among the business processes that, if strengthened with analytic software, can help companies improve their performance. Due to time and expense of implementation, many organizations have been slow to aggressively adopt business performance management (BPM) solutions.

Topics to be discussed include:

9:30am - 10:00am

Executive Exchange

CFO Think Tank

The Data Deluge Dilemma

Members of the audit committee are deluged with massive amounts of complex information. It is extremely difficult to pick out from this mass of data the key judgments made by management and the external auditors. This session will discuss how CFOs can play a valuable role in making audit committees more effective by helping them deal with the data deluge.

CFO Think Tank

Aligning and Measuring Finance Management ROI

10:05am - 10:35am

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Optimizing Performance and Creating Greater Strategic Value

Are your budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, and what-if analysis producing the results you need? Are your processes integrated, aligned, and collaborative? Do they help your organizations drive revenue and outperform your competition?

This session will discuss how to quickly create and evaluate what-if scenarios and how to improve your FP&A processes and elevate the strategic contribution of finance within your organization, Make your processes more efficient, accurate, and collaborative with better decisions as the result - results that increase revenues, decrease expenses, and create greater strategic value.

10:35am - 10:55am

Networking Break

11:00am - 11:30am

Executive Exchange

11:35am - 12:05pm

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Using Analytics to Thrive in the New Reality

Getting the right information into the hands of decision makers so they can exploit emerging trends and take advantage of new business opportunities has always been a key goal; however; this requires a new level of agility, context and mobility to truly be effective. CFOs and business leaders are challenged with massive amounts of information that need to be synthesized and delivered instantaneously, in easy and intuitive ways, so users inside and outside the organization can gain access when and wherever an opportunity presents itself. This session will explore new and emerging trends in business analytics and how these solutions can enable all employees to achieve truly remarkable results.

Networking Luncheon

1:15pm - 1:45pm

Executive Exchange

CFO Thought Leadership

Balancing Cost Optimization with Performance Management

1:50pm - 2:50pm

CFO Executive Visions

The EU Economics of Cloud Computing

The potential to lower costs are making CFOs enthusiastic about cloud computing. The implementation will bring CFOs and CIOs closer together and it will require both parties to penetrate the hype surrounding the cloud. A closer working relationship between finance and IT becomes critical as cloud-accessed servers need to talk to your legacy systems, which will require business-process mapping and integration, not to mention a whole new approach to security.

What is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the cloud and how do we select the best providers? Security and IT governance challenges cause consternation as enterprises in EU continue virtualizing and wrestle with information assurance, enterprise architecture, data architecture, applications architecture and infrastructure.

Topics to be discussed:

Concluding Remarks

2:55pm - 6:00pm

Recreation & Relaxation Time

6:00pm - 9:30pm

Farewell Dinner & Networking